Trends · data through September 2026

Shoe Stores & Footwear Brands in Alabama

Iceflower tracks 148 stores from 64 shoe stores & footwear brands in Alabama. Journeys grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rack Room Shoes and DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
64
Tracked stores
148
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked shoe stores & footwear brands

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Journeys and Rack Room Shoes sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Journeys logo Journeys - +5.0%
2 R Rack Room Shoes logo Rack Room Shoes ▲1 +1.0%
3 D DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse logo DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse - -7.5%
4 S Shoe Show logo Shoe Show - -7.7%
5 S Shoe Dept. Encore - -10.5%
6 S Shoe Station logo Shoe Station ▼1 -19.5%
7 C City Gear logo City Gear - -100.0%
  • Shoe Carnival
  • Rack Room Shoes
  • Shoe Station
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse
  • Journeys
  • Fort Payne Footworks and Outdoors
  • Shoe Show
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

148 tracked store locations in Alabama. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Shoe Carnival (13)
  • Rack Room Shoes (23)
  • Shoe Station (12)
  • DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse (7)
  • Journeys (10)
  • Fort Payne Footworks and Outdoors (1)
  • Shoe Show (16)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 R Rack Room Shoes logo Rack Room Shoes 23
  • 2 S Shoe Show logo Shoe Show 16
  • 3 S Shoe Carnival logo Shoe Carnival 13
  • 4 S Shoe Station logo Shoe Station 12
  • 5 J Journeys logo Journeys 10
  • 6 D DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse logo DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse 7
  • 7 C City Gear logo City Gear 4
  • 8 S Shoe Dept. Encore 3
  • 9 F Famous Footwear logo Famous Footwear 2
  • 10 G Generations Footwear 2
  • 11 V Vans logo Vans 2
  • 12 B Bonehead Boots 2
  • 13 A Ann's Shoes 1
  • 14 S Shoe Trend 1
  • 15 E El Vaquero Boots 1
  • 16 S Shoefly 1
  • 17 R Request Boutique Birmingham 1
  • 18 B Brantley's Western & Casual Wear 1
  • 19 L Little Soles 1
  • 20 W Wagners Shoes 1
  • 21 S Shoes4Ever 1
  • 22 D Dance-N-Things 1
  • 23 A Allen Edmonds logo Allen Edmonds 1
  • 24 F Flip-Flops and What Nots 1
  • 25 F Fort Payne Footworks and Outdoors 1
  • 26 S Shoe Fly 1
  • 27 A Anderson Shoes and Boots 1
  • 28 G Gem Shoe Repair and Footwear 1
  • 29 T Trading Post - Fort Payne 1
  • 30 P Payless ShoeSource logo Payless ShoeSource 1
  • 31 P Pam's Shoe Store 1
  • 32 L Legacy 1
  • 33 R Rainouts 1
  • 34 B Buckle My Shoe logo Buckle My Shoe 1
  • 35 P Polish Boutique 1
  • 36 A Aldo Trovato PC 1
  • 37 L Love 2 Run 1
  • 38 S Sports Additions 1
  • 39 O Oswalt's 1
  • 40 T Trading Post Western and Outdoor 1
  • 41 F Fleet Feet Mobile 1
  • 42 C Crocs logo Crocs 1
  • 43 T The Boot Store 1
  • 44 S Sikes Children's Shoes 1
  • 45 S Safety Shoes Plus 1
  • 46 S Shaia's 1
  • 47 M Mobile Shoe Hospital 1
  • 48 J J-Ray Shoes logo J-Ray Shoes 1
  • 49 A Austin's Shoes 1
  • 50 T Tradehome Shoes logo Tradehome Shoes 1

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